Ferguson Ariva 250

corkmans1 · 03-01-2019 11:14pm

STB. wrote: »

corkmans1 wrote: »

Thanks, I understand what you mean, I will make sure the box is working before getting a second box.

I have manually added transponder mentioned by gerry "For example Channel 4 HD is on 11127 V 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK" and it said the transponder was already added. I searched this responder only and it said No Programs Found. I also checked 10714 H 22000 5/6 which was suppose to give channel 4 and this also said no channels found.
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Use the add a transponder function same freq and change the S/R to 22001 Or change the freq by one and use the same s/r etc

Still no luck after trying this and just noticed it said fail after scan. When running the full scan it sais fail after not receiving channels from a scanned responder. It says pass for responders which i get channels from so not sure does this mean anything.

STB. · 04-01-2019 3:11pm

corkmans1 wrote: »

Still no luck after trying this and just noticed it said fail after scan. When running the full scan it sais fail after not receiving channels from a scanned responder. It says pass for responders which i get channels from so not sure does this mean anything.

There is a good chance that your satellite dish has moved slightly or that the lnb port is blown. You should be getting a signal.

Tony · 04-01-2019 3:15pm

Go to TP list and check signal and quality readings for transponders you are not receiving . Check to see if they have anything in common eg are they Horizontal or vertical or all high or low in the frequency table. This may give some clues as to what is wrong.

corkmans1 · 04-01-2019 4:27pm

Thanks for all the advice, i have tried the box in my fathers house and get all channels. I suppose next step is the lnb, is there and lnb in particular i should be getting? Thanks.

Tony · 04-01-2019 4:30pm

I would check the TP list first as I mentioned above to rule out dish alignment before you spend money on an LNB.

corkmans1 · 04-01-2019 5:09pm

Thanks Tony, will try this tonigh and let you know.

corkmans1 · 04-01-2019 6:08pm

Just back home and checked box and none of the channels that worked with my fathers dish are working for me, actually I don't think any channels at all are working. I have checked the TP signals for channel 4 and ITV, the signal intensity is 45% and the signal quality is 10% so maybe the dish just needs alignment.

I have scanned to pick up channels with my dish and other TPs are showing signal intensity is 90% and signal quality 76%.

Nowso · 05-01-2019 1:14am

corkmans1 wrote: »

Just back home and checked box and none of the channels that worked with my fathers dish are working for me, actually I don't think any channels at all are working. I have checked the TP signals for channel 4 and ITV, the signal intensity is 45% and the signal quality is 10% so maybe the dish just needs alignment.

I have scanned to pick up channels with my dish and other TPs are showing signal intensity is 90% and signal quality 76%.

your dish / lnb /cable set up must be the issue

Seb79 · 19-03-2019 5:00pm

Hi,

I upgraded my ariva 250 combo to the latest firmware but now when I do a scan it doesn't find any channels at all... Can anybody help?

I downloaded abs file on stick, chose upgrade by usb, then userdb, picked the file and then start but no channels are being found...

Thanks in advance,

Seb.

Tony · 19-03-2019 5:34pm

Check that Astra 2 is selected in the satellite list, it should have a "heart" image beside it.

Seb79 wrote: »

Hi,

I upgraded my ariva 250 combo to the latest firmware but now when I do a scan it doesn't find any channels at all... Can anybody help?

I downloaded abs file on stick, chose upgrade by usb, then userdb, picked the file and then start but no channels are being found...

Thanks in advance,

Seb.

Seb79 · 19-03-2019 5:45pm

Hi Tony,

Thanks for that. I am not connected to satellite, only terrestrial channels like virgin media 1/2/3, tg4 etc.. which were working "ok" yesterday. I did what you just recommended but no change for these channels

Thanks,

Seb

Tony · 19-03-2019 6:39pm

Ok, maybe a problem with the aerial then perhaps . If you google saorview coverage checker and find out what UHF channel you are on you can then enter under "manual terrestrial scan" and check signal level and quality.

Seb79 · 20-03-2019 12:30pm

Hi Tony,

Thank you so much for that. Tried it and again there was nothing showing. I then simply unplugged the aerial at both ends and re-plugged it and there was then a signal and I have all our channels back. Probably just a loose wire.... Case closed thanks again!!

Seb.

Tony · 20-03-2019 1:20pm

Glad you got it back working

Seb79 wrote: »

Hi Tony,

Thank you so much for that. Tried it and again there was nothing showing. I then simply unplugged the aerial at both ends and re-plugged it and there was then a signal and I have all our channels back. Probably just a loose wire.... Case closed thanks again!!

Seb.

cmac2009 · 06-11-2019 6:08pm

Sorry to drag up an old thread but my parents recently lost all UK freesat channels on their Ariva 250 box. I've looked back on the issues and fixes on the thread and have tried numerous suggestions. Currently running the latest firmware etc but still not getting any UK channels.

Wondering if anyone else has had an issue recently? Perhaps it's time to get a new box they've had it quite some time at this stage. Cheers.

Nowso · 06-11-2019 6:43pm

cmac2009 wrote: »

Sorry to drag up an old thread but my parents recently lost all UK freesat channels on their Ariva 250 box. I've looked back on the issues and fixes on the thread and have tried numerous suggestions. Currently running the latest firmware etc but still not getting any UK channels.

Wondering if anyone else has had an issue recently? Perhaps it's time to get a new box they've had it quite some time at this stage. Cheers.

if its satellite channels check is lnb power on - what it may be is the satellite may need realligning - wind may have moved it

cmac2009 · 06-11-2019 7:03pm

Nowso wrote: »

if its satellite channels check is lnb power on - what it may be is the satellite may need realligning - wind may have moved it

Thanks Nowso, checked LNB and its set to 'On'. Had a look at satellite and it seems OK to my untrained eye,
but might need to get someone more experienced to look at it. Was trying to ensure I had run through all standard fixes beforehand.

Nowso · 06-11-2019 7:29pm

cmac2009 wrote: »

Thanks Nowso, checked LNB and its set to 'On'. Had a look at satellite and it seems OK to my untrained eye,
but might need to get someone more experienced to look at it. Was trying to ensure I had run through all standard fixes beforehand.

check the cable is in the in at the back and not the out and a lot would need to be retuned after that long aswell

Nowso · 06-11-2019 8:16pm

have uu a different box to try also

cmac2009 · 06-11-2019 8:21pm

Nowso wrote: »

have uu a different box to try also

No, unfortunately not. There's nothing else that I'm missing from the installation menu point of view. Satellite is Astra 2A and have also tried Eurobird.

Nowso · 06-11-2019 8:32pm

cmac2009 wrote: »

No, unfortunately not. There's nothing else that I'm missing from the installation menu point of view. Satellite is Astra 2A and have also tried Eurobird.

if u retuned and not getting any likeky the dish but some tuners did go in them fergusons b4

Tony · 06-11-2019 9:59pm

Are the Uk channels appearing in the channel list ? Does it say "All Channels" at the top of the channel list ?

Thargor · 06-11-2019 10:30pm

Go to Sky News or BBC1 and see what the signal strength is.

Get yourself a satfinder on Ebay, they're handy to have.

(You dont need a satfinder to check the signal strength btw, its an option in the Arivas menus)

cmac2009 · 06-11-2019 10:35pm

Tony wrote: »

Are the Uk channels appearing in the channel list ? Does it say "All Channels" at the top of the channel list ?

No, I'm only getting Irish channels on the 'Channel list'. Yes it does say all channels, but there are only 28 odd, all Irish related, some duplicated.

cmac2009 · 06-11-2019 10:36pm

Thargor wrote: »

Go to Sky News or BBC1 and see what the signal strength is.

Get yourself a satfinder on Ebay, they're handy to have.

(You dont need a satfinder to check the signal strength btw, its an option in the Arivas menus)

Unfortunately don't have BBC or Sky news to check the signal strength.

Tony · 07-11-2019 10:44am

Ok you must have done a factory reset to delete the existing channels before re tuning.

cmac2009 wrote: »

No, I'm only getting Irish channels on the 'Channel list'. Yes it does say all channels, but there are only 28 odd, all Irish related, some duplicated.

Tony · 07-11-2019 10:48am

You can check satellite signal strength by going to the "TP List" in the menu. I think your problem may be in order of probability 1. Dish alignment 2. Cable or F connector issue 3. LNB failure on the dish 4. The tuner in the box itself.

cmac2009 wrote: »

Unfortunately don't have BBC or Sky news to check the signal strength.

cmac2009 · 07-11-2019 9:36pm

Tony wrote: »

You can check satellite signal strength by going to the "TP List" in the menu. I think your problem may be in order of probability 1. Dish alignment 2. Cable or F connector issue 3. LNB failure on the dish 4. The tuner in the box itself.

Just saw your replies Tony, thanks for your suggestions. I'm away from home again but will mention to the old fella. He said he was going to contact the guy he had install it originally. My uneducated guess would be dish issue as well. We'll see.

Thanks again to all who replied.

Seb79 · 03-12-2019 12:35pm

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone had this issue. A lot of the time when we watch a recorded program it jumps forward and we miss half the program if not all of it. By example, 1 hour show is recorded, we watched 5 mins and suddenly it jumps to 37 mins or 40 mins or whatever, it's kind of random.

Any ideas why this may happen?

Thanks,

Seb.

Nowso · 03-12-2019 2:40pm

Seb79 wrote: »

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone had this issue. A lot of the time when we watch a recorded program it jumps forward and we miss half the program if not all of it. By example, 1 hour show is recorded, we watched 5 mins and suddenly it jumps to 37 mins or 40 mins or whatever, it's kind of random.

Any ideas why this may happen?

Thanks,

Seb.

sounds like the hard drive - slow or full especially if it was hd your recording

Seb79 · 03-12-2019 2:57pm

Nowso wrote: »

sounds like the hard drive - slow or full especially if it was hd your recording

Thanks. I can always try with another hard drive but the one that is currently there is far from being full ðŸ™. I'll try and see what happens. This never happened before it only started recently.

Nowso · 03-12-2019 3:01pm

Seb79 wrote: »

Thanks. I can always try with another hard drive but the one that is currently there is far from being full ðŸ™. I'll try and see what happens. This never happened before it only started recently.

they dont need to be very full to slow down especially on hd

gerkildare · 06-10-2021 11:15am

Advance apologies if this Q is in the wrong thread but I've been here before with some Ariva questions.

First just a 'heads up' about my setup...

I'm using an Ariva 250 in kitchen and an Ariva 153 in sittingroom - each is fed from the dish/LNB by a separate cable that's at least 11+ years old [I'm not sure if cable age is relevant here or not?]

The 153 is the newer of the 2 boxes and, in truth, is the more finicky/'crap' of the two, to the extent that'd I'd be very hesitant about ever buying another Ariva - it constantly needs to be powered off and other lesser issues with the menu, back button, etc. etc. [I can just about live with these annoyances]

Recently a strange intermittent but fairly constant [yeah, I know, aren't the weird ones always intermittent] problem has raised it's head though;

...If I try to watch a satellite channel [i.e. NOT terrestrial RTE etc] on the 153 I HAVE to have the 250 working the same channel AND leave it on that channel while I'm watching the 153 - to be clear I mean if I want to watch say, BBCHD One, I HAVE to have that channel selected on the 250 first or else the 153 will just show the 'No Signal' floating dialogue box on ALL satellite channels.

If the 250 isn't 'on' the same channel the 153 will stay at 'No Signal' for all satellite channels until I select the channel on the 250, then the signal reaches the 153.

If I then switch the 250 away from that channel the 'No Signal' again reappears on all satellite channels on the 153.

This doesn't happen and/or isn't affected if I want to watch terrestrial on the 153.

Far as I'm aware [because I haven't noticed it yet] it doesn't apply in the opposite direction i.e. the 153 has to be 'on' first to affect the 250.

[EDIT: the last sentence, above, is now not true! - NOW the 153 is working but the 250 is receiving no satellite channels!!🤬🤬]

This is wrecking my head so any decent suggestions of help will be most welcome!

Thanks folks👍

Thargor · 29-09-2023 7:57pm

Not sure if anyone is still running one of these but I just changed the channel numbering system on my Zgemma so that 1 is RTE 1 instead of 110, 2 is RTE2 etc etc.

Does anyone know if theres a similar feature on the Ariva and where it is?

SPDUB · 29-09-2023 11:16pm

On all the Ariva's I had and have you could set up favourites lists and put stations in any order .

I presume the 250 is the same

funkey_monkey · 13-09-2024 8:15pm

Is there a successor to the ariva 250 combo?

Got one here setup for a relative and it is freezing regularly and laggy. I would need it to have the same interface for their ease of use.

Also, anyone know how to alter the time in one? It is currently an hour behind. Everything is 1hr behind - even the epg and channel info box.

byte · 13-09-2024 9:15pm

The Ariva 255 Combo is their current model in that range.

Maybe there is a time option somewhere in Settings, whether it's to turn Summer Time on/off or maybe change time zone to GMT +1

swoofer · 14-09-2024 8:48am

press menu and look for this, use satelite for time is best.

12.4 Local time settings This menu is used to set the time and date. The receiver can automatically download the time and date from the satellite (recommended), or you may set the time and date manually

Ferguson Ariva 250

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